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5 - The Encounter with Christ’s Resurrected Flesh

from II - The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2023

Augustine M. Reisenauer
Affiliation:
Providence College, Rhode Island
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Chapter 5 explores Augustine’s understanding of how Christians can come into contact with Christ’s resurrected flesh, especially through the scriptural proclamation and specular preaching of the resurrected Christ within the context of the Church. Augustine appreciates that Jesus makes his resurrected flesh available for believers of every nation and generation to see and touch in faith. Moreover, as one of Christ’s specular preachers, Augustine facilitates present encounters of himself, his hearers, and his readers with their risen Lord by preaching on the historical event of Jesus’s resurrection and surrounding events such as Christ’s crucifixion, death, burial, descent into hell, resurrection appearances, ascension into heaven, and sending of the Spirit. The impacts of our contact with the resurrected Christ include our gradual and integral resurrection in and through his risen flesh.

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Print publication year: 2023

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